The rises and falls of Pauline Hanson

Former One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has announced she has returned to lead the party. Here is a timeline of her political career.

1994: Fish and chip shop owner Pauline Hanson is elected as an independent local councillor in Ipswich, west of Brisbane.

1996: Ms Hanson is endorsed by the Liberal Party to run as their candidate in the seat of Oxley. She is disendorsed during campaigning after making comments to a local newspaper about Aboriginal welfare.

March 1996: Ms Hanson wins the seat of Oxley but sits as an independent because of her disendorsement from the Liberal Party.

September 1996: Ms Hanson makes her maiden speech to the House of Representatives in which she questions Australia's pursuit of multiculturalism and its immigration policy.

October 1996: When asked in a 60 Minute's interview if she is a xenophobe, Ms Hanson responds with the now much-parodied line: "Please explain?"

April 1997: Ms Hanson founds One Nation with her adviser David Oldfield and David Ettridge.

1998: Ms Hanson loses her seat in Parliament.

November 2001: Ms Hanson runs for a Queensland Senate seat in the federal election but loses.

2003: Ms Hanson moves to Sylvania Waters in Sydney and stands for a seat in the New South Wales Upper House but loses.

August 2003: Ms Hanson and Mr Ettridge are found guilty of electoral fraud for falsely claiming members of the Pauline Hanson Support Movement were members of One Nation. Ms Hanson is sentenced to three years jail.

November 2003: Ms Hanson and Mr Ettridge are released from prison after their conviction is quashed by the Queensland Court of Appeal.

2004: Ms Hanson, running as an independent, loses her bid to win a Queensland Senate seat in the federal election.

2004: Ms Hanson competes in the Channel Seven reality TV show Dancing With The Stars. She and her dancing partner make it to the finals but lose to former Home and Away star Bec Cartwright.

March 2007: Ms Hanson releases her autobiography Untamed and Unashamed.

2007: Ms Hanson launches Pauline's United Australia Party. She fails in her bid to pick up one of Queensland's Senate seats in that year's federal election.

March 2009: News Limited newspapers publish photos of a near nude woman said to be Pauline Hanson in the 1970s but Ms Hanson denies the photos are her and it is later revealed they are a hoax.

2009: Ms Hanson stands as an independent candidate for the seat of Beaudesert in the Queensland state election but loses.

February 2010: Ms Hanson reveals she is selling her home in Queensland and moving to the United Kingdom.

March 2011: After returning from the UK, Ms Hanson nominates as a candidate for the New South Wales Legislative Council in the state election.

April 12, 2011: Ms Hanson fails in her bid to win a seat in the New South Wales Upper House.

November 19, 2014: Ms Hanson announces her comeback to lead One Nation, which will contest the Queensland election.